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PRINTING MACHINE 19 Sheets-Sheet 18 Sept. '18, 1951 Filed Nov. 6, 1948Sept. 18, 1951 w. T. GoLLWlTzER PRINTING MACHINE 19 Sheets-Sheet 19Filed NOV. 6, 1948 fr? z/ef? for Go//w/ 7 dam M ZUG/fer Z www@ mw fw@Patented Sept. 18, n1951 PRINTING MACH-INE Walter T. Gollwitzer, Euclid,Ohio, assignor to Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation, Wilmington,Del., a. corporation of Delaware Application November 6, 1948, SerialNo. 58,742

19 Claims. l

This invention relates to machines for producing business instrumentsand particularly to apparatus for producing business instruments thatembody printed numerical data with respect to which totals and otheraccounting information may be desired.

It has been found that business instruments may be advantageouslyprinted from individual printing and control devices through the use ofprinting machines of the character disclosed in Hueber Patent No.2,359,849, patented October 10, 1944, particularly When such a printingmachine is used in association with automatic sheet feeding mechanismsuch as that shown in the Morse Patent No. 2,359,852, patented October10, 1944. Where the apparatus shown in the two aforesaid patents isutilized for producing business instruments such as checks or bills thatinclude numerical or money amounts, it is, of course, highly desirablethat means be afforded for conveniently verifying the total amounts ofthe bills and checks that are thus produced, and to enable this to beaccomplished in an advantageous and simple manner is the primary objectof the present invention. More specically, it is an object of thepresent invention to enable the adding and listing unit disclosed inFigs. 37 to 96 of my copending application, Serial No. 673,329, led June12, 1946,. now abandoned to be readily and easily coordinated with theapparatus illustrated in the aforesaid Hueber and Morse patents, therebyto enable the adding and listing unit of my aforesaid copendingapplication to produce proof sheets embodying totals of various kinds inaccordance with the operation of the apparatus disclosed in theaforesaid Hueber and Morse patents.

In the aforesaid Hueber patent, it is the practice to pass individualprinting devices through the machine in succession and to cause themachine to operate through either a print cycle or `a skip cycle inrespect to each such printing device and in accordance with the sensedpresence or absence of identifying means carried` on the respectiveprinting devices. In the aforesaid Morse patent, means are illustratedWhereby the operation of the automatic sheet feeding mechanism iscoordinated with the print-skip operation of the printing machine shownin the aforesaid Hueber patent, and a further object of the presentinvention is to enable the adding and listing unit of my aforesaidcopending application to be coordinated with the print-skip operation ofthe aforesaid printing; apparatus shown in the Hueber patent so that aproof sheet will (Cl. 235 6L9) be produced by the adding and listingunit that corresponds with the money amounts printed on the successivebusiness instruments by the printing mechanism.

Another and important object of the present invention is to afford animproved and simplified sensing mechanism adapted to be used in amachine such as that shown in the aforesaid Hueber patent for sensingthe identifying means of the printing devices as Well asdata-representing perforations that may be alforded in a selected fieldof such printing devices. More specically, it is an object of thepresent invention to afford such a sensing mechanism that is adapted tocontrol the total taking mechanism of the adding and listing units shownin my aforesaid copending application, and to also enable the setting ofthe sensing means in such a sensing mechanism to be readily and easilyeffected.

Another important object of the present invention is to enable theadding and listing machine of such an organization to take totals atselected intervals and to enable this to be accomplished under controlof the printing machine.

Other and further objects of the present invention Will be apparent fromthe following description and claims and are illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, which, by Way of illustration, show a preferredembodiment and the principles thereof and what I now consider to be thebest mode in which I have contemplated applying those principles. Otherembodiments of the invention embodying the same or equivalent principlesmay be used and structural changes may be made as desired by thoseskilled in the art Without departing from the present invention and thepurview of the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of a machine embodying the features of thepresent invention, the machine as shown in Fig. 1 having the sheetfeeding means removed therefrom;

Fig. 1A is a plan view of the machine shown in Fig. 1 and illustratingthe sheet feeding means in its normal relation thereto;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view illustrating the sensing meansof the present invention;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary side elevational View of the sensing means;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary plan View of the means for accurately locatingthe printing devices;

